Meet the former JPMorgan exec with designs on London’s offices

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Tyler Goodwin

By

Tim Burke

August 15, 2018 Updated: 7:02 a.m. GMT

Tyler Goodwin is searching for photos online of Dodge K-Cars, an affordable series produced by Chrysler in North America throughout the 1980s whose boxy design became a middle class icon there, not unlike the Ford Fiesta in the UK.

Sitting in his offices in London’s increasingly trendy Farringdon, the head of Seaforth Land uses the clunky-looking vehicle as a metaphor for much of the capital’s dated and dilapidated commercial property.